JKCF Scholarship Opportunities

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation offers the largest scholarships available to exceptionally high achieving, low-income students. Scholars receive up to $40,000 a year to cover tuition, living expenses, books and other fees. Cooke Scholars come from every state with no restriction on background, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, political affiliation or citizenship status.

The Cooke College Scholarship is an undergraduate scholarship for high-achieving high school seniors with financial need that can be used at any accredited state or private four-year college and university. This scholarship is available to 12th graders who have earned a cumulative unweighted GPA of at least 3.5 and minimum SAT combined critical reading and math scores of at least 1200 or minimum ACT composite score of 26. Applications are due by November 3, 2015.

The Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship makes it possible for the nation’s top community college students to complete their bachelor’s degrees by transferring to a four-year college or university. The scholarship is available to community college students who have earned a GPA of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale. Applications are due by December 15, 2015.

For more information on the JKCF scholarships, visit the JKCF website or contact Nara Lee, JKCF’s manager of outreach, at 571-209-1792 or via email.